100% High Quality Two Star Rotation: No Food, NQ Materials, No RNG

[Nyalia]

Yep, I do!
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Can you really guarantee without artisans that a 40 durability two star item will finish in a single Careful Synthesis II while under Ingenuity II with no Artisans and no melded offhand? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just remember only getting 108 progress from that, which left me short of the goal by a little bit, requiring a second CSII. But, my memory kinda sucks, so I could definitely be misremembering.

Also, your Steady Hand II can be a Steady Hand instead, saving 3 CP since all you do with it is Byregot's, which has 90% success rate. If you want to reduce the CP cost further, you can ditch the Innovation, saving another 18 CP, as Innovation only helps a tiny bit (it only gives you (Base Control) x 0.5 extra Control, not (Inner-Quiet-buffed Control) x 0.5 like some expect). That brings the CP cost down to 350, so you only need to eat an NQ Frumenty, which are dirt cheap.

The rotation I used for these was extremely similar to yours: 350CP req, min Craft req, Control varies due to reliance on Hasty Touch:

Req Classes:
- 50 LTW
- 50 CRP
- 50 WVR
- 50 BSM (Actually, maybe Ingenuity I would work? I haven't tried it)
- 37 CUL
- 50 ALC (or increase CP cost by 14)
- 15 GSM

40 Durability 2 Star MACRO ROTATION (350 CP Required*):
(* Possibly 342 if Ingenuity I is enough, I haven't tried it. Add 14 if ALC is below 50)

2 Star 40 Opener

/ac "Comfort Zone" <wait.2>
/ac "Inner Quiet" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.3>
/ac "Waste Not II" <wait.2>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/echo Next <se.5>


2 Star 40 Finisher

/ac "Manipulation" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand" <wait.2>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.5>
/ac "Ingenuity II" <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>
/ac "Careful Synthesis II" <wait.3>
/ac "Careful Synthesis II"

The reason for the extra wait before Ingenuity II is twofold - if your condition is Excellent, you may want to cancel the macro and manually finish it. Also, if you fail to hit the Ingenuity due to lag, your synth will fail. I randomly lag, and I don't like synths failing.

Thinking about it, since I do CSII twice, I wonder if I could have gotten away with Ingenuity I instead of Ingenuity II. That would lower the entry requirement from BSM 50 to BSM 15 and lower the CP required by 8. That would allow you to do the rotation without food with 342 CP, or 345 CP if you wanted to bump the Steady Hand to a Steady Hand II for the single Hasty Touch in there...

[SeleneVenizelos]

Can you really guarantee without artisans that a 40 durability two star item will finish in a single Careful Synthesis II while under Ingenuity II with no Artisans and no melded offhand?

He can't guarantee that because it doesn't. 392 Craftsmanship gives me 115/114 progress with Ingenuity 2 active. How much would 359, his recommended amount? I also know from experience that it won't work. Without Artisan you can not finish two star 40s in one step. Thankfully this 100% 40 durability rotation works. Make your Twinthread, Rose Gold Nugget, etc, with the rotation. It works without Artisan Tool. The use the same rotation but slightly modified for the items you're after. Specifically follow this part:

Solution for non-Artisan 2 Star

Simple solution. Use the rotation to make the two HQ base (Twinthread, etc) for your two star synth. Drop the first basic touch from the rotation and use Careful Synthesis II instead. This will reach 100% without any RNG (just!) but it will require the two HQ materials. That's not a problem with this rotation now though!

So use the rotation to make the HQ ingredients for the two star. The rotation above HQs without Artisan if the two ingredients are two star and you follow the above modification.

[Nyalia]

Thankfully this 100% 40 durability rotation works.

Thanks! I really need to replace my tried-and-mostly-true HT macros with the 100% BT macros from this forum. Thank you guys for being kind enough to share them! In addition to the one you linked (and this one), I found other threads that have superior macros to all the ones I have been using.

[Bunsen]

He can't guarantee that because it doesn't. 392 Craftsmanship gives me 115/114 progress with Ingenuity 2 active. How much would 359, his recommended amount?

You are correct sir.. I just realized I must have taken out the 2nd Careful Synthesis II when I got my Artisan's. 359 only gives 107, I just tested and can confirm.